D4Science-II Joint research activities

The objective of the D4Science-II Joint Research Activities (JRA) is to develop and consolidate the technology needed to support the implementation of the knowledge ecosystem D4Science-II has to operate and to serve the target scenarios and the scientific communities directly benefiting of this ecosystem.

To achieve this objective a set of activities are planned and organised into a number of interacting work packages:

• JRA1 – Knowledge Ecosystem Implementation — organises and puts in place the activities needed to implement the ecosystem enabling technology. These activities include: (i) the analysis of the requirements driving the ecosystem building and exploitation as well as the high-level design of the technological enhancements – requirements to be managed are related to how interoperability between each target e-Infrastructure and D4Science is dealt (NA4), to the scenarios’ enhanced services (NA5) as well as to the experiences gained while operating the ecosystem and the VREs (SA1 and SA2); (ii) the implementation activities leading to a generic interoperability framework and its add-ons addressing single infrastructures’ peculiarities; (iii) the implementation activities leading to an access interface for the consumption of gCube facilities; and (iv) the technology consolidation and enhancement activities needed to transform gCube into a system supporting the envisaged knowledge ecosystem.
• JRA2 – Scenario Specific Implementation — covers the needs for detailed design and implementation which will be raised by each of the scenarios. It includes specific tasks devoted to the implementation of innovative services benefiting of their operating in the ecosystem as well as the adaptation of existing services to either enlarge their supported functionality or reinforce their operational behaviour. Examples of the technology enhancements that will be conducted in the context of this work package are: services performing innovative computational intensive bibliometric data mining, services implementing enhanced publication models, services providing access to more precise and complete species distribution maps, services enhancing the production of country-level reports, services supporting innovative fish stock monitoring and assessment activities by providing advanced views of catch data resulting from new predictive models. Despite such a technology will be developed to satisfy the needs arising in specific application contexts, effort will be spent to make it as much generic and extendible as possible in order to maximise its adaptation and usage in other scenarios served by the ecosystem. Each service will become a commodity contributing to populate the ecosystem.